"Employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Central Administrative District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow detained a man suspected of seizing money from a citizen in the amount of more than 162 million rubles by fraud.
It is established that in the period from August to September 2023, unknown persons made several calls to a 31-year-old citizen, posing as employees of various banks, as well as law enforcement agencies. By deception, under the pretext of preserving the funds that the attackers are allegedly trying to steal, they convinced the victim to transfer funds in the amount of 26 million 400 thousand rubles to the so-called secure account.
Then the scammers continued to communicate with the woman and convinced her to sell her apartment on Prechistenka Street, as, according to them, unknown people issued a loan secured by this apartment. Following the instructions of the callers, the misled victim made a deal for the purchase and sale of an apartment, and transferred the proceeds in the amount of 129 million rubles to unknown persons.
After that, fraudsters in the course of further phone calls convinced the citizen to make 7 million rubles allegedly to pay for parking spaces that were in shared ownership, which she did, transferring these funds to the accounts indicated to her.
Thus, the total material damage caused to the victim amounted to 162 million 400 thousand rubles.
As a result of a complex of operational search measures, criminal investigation officers on Initiativnaya Street detained one of the suspects-a 25 – year-old citizen temporarily residing in the capital.
An investigator of the Internal Affairs Department of the Central Administrative District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code "Fraud". The defendant was detained in accordance with Article 91 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation.
Currently, the police are conducting operational search activities and investigative actions aimed at identifying and detaining the accomplices of the detainee," said Colonel of the Internal Service Vladimir Vasenin, head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow.
It is established that in the period from August to September 2023, unknown persons made several calls to a 31-year-old citizen, posing as employees of various banks, as well as law enforcement agencies. By deception, under the pretext of preserving the funds that the attackers are allegedly trying to steal, they convinced the victim to transfer funds in the amount of 26 million 400 thousand rubles to the so-called secure account.
Then the scammers continued to communicate with the woman and convinced her to sell her apartment on Prechistenka Street, as, according to them, unknown people issued a loan secured by this apartment. Following the instructions of the callers, the misled victim made a deal for the purchase and sale of an apartment, and transferred the proceeds in the amount of 129 million rubles to unknown persons.
After that, fraudsters in the course of further phone calls convinced the citizen to make 7 million rubles allegedly to pay for parking spaces that were in shared ownership, which she did, transferring these funds to the accounts indicated to her.
Thus, the total material damage caused to the victim amounted to 162 million 400 thousand rubles.
As a result of a complex of operational search measures, criminal investigation officers on Initiativnaya Street detained one of the suspects-a 25 – year-old citizen temporarily residing in the capital.
An investigator of the Internal Affairs Department of the Central Administrative District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code "Fraud". The defendant was detained in accordance with Article 91 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation.
Currently, the police are conducting operational search activities and investigative actions aimed at identifying and detaining the accomplices of the detainee," said Colonel of the Internal Service Vladimir Vasenin, head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow.
